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I think Notch has been going through a divorce so understandably development has been a little slow.

http://www.reddit.com/r/0x10c/comments/yb94y/the_reason_for_...
This is one of the fortunate things about living in the UK. I live in a crappy part of London but the hospital is good and 100% included in my tax.

Through my wife's 2x emergency c-sections, a broken arm, my physically disabled daughter, an eye socket infection thanks to a mosquito bite, an umbillical hernia operation and an ingrown toe nail, its been perfect and cost no excess, insurance begging or legal intervention.

I'm not afraid to call an ambulance in case it costs money.
Going to disagree. I think the level of likelihood for failing when you're shooting in the dark with your idea dú jour is SUBSTANTIALLY higher than when you mine audience pain points and build products around what people are asking for.

That's all I'm doing. There's nothing that I'm doing that someone else can't.
Where is Know-it-All Driven Development? Oh wait.
This seems really cool, but I'm having some trouble coming up with a use case for this. Why would I want to translate my django model to a dictionary?
> It would be easier to prove his troll-ness if he didn't delete his account

Anyone familiar with reddit personalities heard of VA and knows he's exactly that: A troll who rolls with the punches and does the opposite of what people expect to rile them up. 99% of the subreddits he moderated were created by others and then abandoned or handed off to him against his will.

He didn't create /r/PicsOfDeadKids or any of those weird one-offs. He did continue to post to them because reposting images from 4chan once and a while was easy and apparently the concept of someone actively moderating a subreddit like that amused him.

He never deserved this witch hunt, and he's not a cruel or unfriendly person. The only bad interactions I've seen him have with people were those that try and provoke him.
Doesn't this sound oddly like the often reviled "I have a great idea, now all I need is to hire a programmer!"
The theory also assumes that objects in the Universe can only emit light. This isn't true: most matter in the Universe is dark (dust, planets, dark matter), and absorbs light.

We know that this is highly true at intragalactic scales -- the core of the Milky Way is completely obscured from Earth due to the dust between us and it. There's good reason to believe it's also true at intergalactic scales.

Other aspects of the paradox contribute, but I strongly suspect that various dark matter effects are stronger.
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> When Loïs was born I had an office in my house. She slept next to my desk in a crib, a developer who worked next to me used to walk around with her when I received an important phone call, and when she was awake I would just keep her on my lap.

That... doesn't sound ideal, but at least it's honest.
> How does distance affect brightness?

Red shift. The universe is filled with photons. But as the universe expands, everything moving away from everything else, the human visible light moves into the infrared spectrum.
Well, lets start with the fact that your personal reflection is bunk, and I'm not an american as well, but culturally aware enough to know that the european stereotype of Americans being really politically correct is actually present in an american "Europeans are politically correct" version. Also, "horizontally-challenged" is not something that really happens. Actual political correctness is either saying "overweight" when it's relevant, or keeping it to your own damn self when it's not.

Now, to the personal reflection — people might rationally know that it's no-one's business how much they weight, but still be aware of the societal perception of their looks. They might be still healthy people, and they would be happy with their looks, but the reaction of society to their looks makes them feel bad anyway, and one of such reactions is using expressions such as "fat".

As for "shaming" == "encouraging," it's just not true, to avoid harsher statements. In fact shaming is extremely discouraging to people, is mostly done without awareness if the person being shamed can or wants to actually change the state that caused shaming, and is just done to boost egos of people doing the shaming. It's only use is in discouraging extremely unwanted behaviors – such as, for example, shaming people whose looks don't conform to your particular standards of beauty. Oh, and "positive change" might be actually a load of bunk as well.

And, finally, as to the "keeping in ignorance" remark, it's an extremely ignorant remark. For one, the "if irrelevant" is important here. My doctor can still tell me that the recently acquired extra load on my joints is probably contributing to my knee issues, interestingly enough without using the expression "fat slob", and people can talk about oppression of people of color in general or blacks, or immigrants in general or Mexicans in specific, depending on how specific the issues in question are. The words become "incorrect" when either used for no reason (why did you need to mention the race of a person doing that annoyed you on the street, for example?), or using the words that are racial slurs used specifically to offend.
There's also the point to consider that much of the pharma industry's output is bogus: see Ben Goldacre's recent book Bad Pharma.
Not even that. One can postulate that there are things that shield out starlight. Let's call it "ether" or "dark matter".

Alternatively, most of the stars really far away could be covered in a Dyson sphere.
I consider myself a libertarian and I still support public health insurance.

I grew up in Canada and spent time living in the states. I don't agree with most government expenditure, but I have no problem paying taxes for healthcare.

There are much more wasteful things governments spend our money on.
It points that there's a sexual background to a huge chunk of violence against women.
Does anyone know if he's still using Java for this game?
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I agree with most of what you said, except that Nokia taking the Windows Phone strategy and keeping it mouth shut would've killed Windows Phone before they could even ship a phone.

Which makes the decision to go Windows Phone (and kill the company in the process) even more intriguing.
Articles about politics should probably be left to other sites.
But you can't sell the Lumia 920 without WP8, so you can't separate like that in your theory. Either WP8 is a benefit or a hindrance. There's no other way but those 2. I think this was Nokia's biggest mistake, that they tied themselves to Microsoft, and they really didn't have to do it, as they had the bargaining chips when Microsoft came to them. But I guess with a former Microsoft CEO, it must've been pretty hard to consider any other options but Microsoft.
I know it isn't much, but I was inspired by this post: http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/6111/i-am-hacking-this-w...
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You can see the same sketchy metrics in Facebook ads even when drilling down to specific regions. It makes Facebook's platform questionable in regards to any promotions or advertising.

At this point you might as well just run your ads directly via mechanical turk.
I will use it for generating database schema of uploaded django models. It's my use case. Because sandboxing in python is too hard, I can not execute uploaded python script.
The real problem with consulting right now is that it's so freaking lucrative that the opportunity costs for building long-term recurring revenue projects like AR are not insignificant. It's just much more of a gamble, and I too often fall prey to the allure of the large check in the next six weeks, rather than the hundreds of small checks over the next six years, even though the small checks may eventually add up to dwarf the large check. Well, hopefully, but that's the gamble.
The article missed CADT: http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
> Debt collectors can't legally go after anyone but spouses (and in some states not even that) in a case like this, unless it was the kids/grandkids that signed the hospital admissions. This does not stop unscrupulous debt collection agencies from trying however, and many people do not understand their legal rights. (Also, families can be put in the position of supporting the person who is trying to pay the debt, which is a whole other ball of wax.)

In England the debts belong to the debtor. When they die their estate pays any debts. If the estate has no money then the creditors don't get paid.
That's the spec as of CSS3, pseudo elements get ::, pseudo classes get :.

Practically speaking browsers will accept : for everything, possibly forever.
Can you explain some more? That sounds like what the ORM Models already do.
I remember one call I did in the middle of winter a few years ago - cardiac arrest, on the side of the road. Got there and the guy was frozen and long dead.

He was across the street from the hospital. The ER entrance was about 40 yards away, just up a little hill.
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Are you implying a difference? If so, what. Is the person signing the admissions not the debtor?
His reference DCPU implementation was a Java Applet, so most likely.
Last I heard (very recently) the NVidia closed source drivers are still the most practical option, because the AMD closed source drivers are fickle and the AMD open source drivers are incomplete. Wrong?
OK, sure, they run concurrently, but they can't be in the interpreter at the same time. The result is that using python threads to do python things, you won't utilise more than one core, most of the time.

There are a myriad of ways around it, but it is another thing you need to take into account when writing python programs or deciding to use python for a project.
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OP says debt collectors can go after the spouse. DanBC is perhaps implying a difference there?
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If you see any, be sure to alert the community. I was all caught up in this touching article about how disgustingly backwards any non-universal healthcare system is. Sorry, but providing basic free healthcare is no more a political issue than adopting the metric system or providing clean drinking water.

Just because there are a handful of countries that still try to justify their backwards ridiculousness under the thin veneer of "politics", much like those who try to take civil rights away, doesn't mean this isn't a settled issue for 99% of the world and fair game to discuss.

I would love to see the responses to a Muslim extremist who pops into the comments on an article about stoning an adulterer to death to mention that "we should probably be avoiding politics".

Something tells me other commenters would tear his head off, and rightfully so. Just because you can find a place that's still ridiculous enough to try and defend the practice doesn't instantly make it an untouchable political issue.
I was just using the word framework in its general sense, not in the narrower technical definition.
Show you'll put in the time, and I've found pretty much anyone will help you out with areas you are less confident in.

Also, I've found the Benjamin Franklin method of "ask someone to do something for you as a form of flattery" works amazingly well to get people to befriend/like you.
I would err on the side of conspiracy and say that someone is being compensated for hitting the "like" button. Maybe not on your promoted post, but somewhere on Facebook. So others see easy money and click. What's the worst that can happen? They don't get paid.
That doesn't matter. Eventually the dust will radiate too.
I don't love the political tone of this article. But while on the topic of healthcare, did any of you guys have an amazing time getting healthcare for your companies?

We found it was quite a bit of work, especially multi-state.
Talking to entrepreneurs in other countries, not having to deal with healthcare for employees really let them focus on their product and their company, and not how to insure a small growing team across state lines.
never time to do it right, always time to do it over.
Other issues that are way more important than hacking and startups:

* Wars.

* Human rights.

* The fact that people die of hunger.

And yet, those are all not really on-topic for this site either.

It would be extremely easy to crowd out all the 'on topic' stories with things that are vastly more important "in the grand scheme of things", yet it would ruin the nature of this site.

Articles about stoning women are also, IMO, off topic, so the problem with the 'muslim extremist' simply shouldn't happen.

(BTW, I much prefer the health care situation here in Italy than in my native US, but discussing it is just not what this site is about.)
I should correct myself that historically, the paradox didn't hinge on the universe being infinitely old, but on the speed of light being infinitely fast.
I agree with all your points except for the one about Meego. All reviews I've read of the N9 when it was released half a year after your experience with it were positive. All praised the innovative design and the fluidity of the device while it was running on dated hardware.

Would Nokia have been saved by choosing Meego over WP7? We'll never know and I think that's a shame.
Is this article against debt collectors, or politics that make paying for medical treatment one's own responsibility?

There is at least one lady who makes a living by suing telemarketers that violate the law. There are individual cases of people suing debt collectors for violating the law. Here is one recent case:
http://consumerist.com/2012/10/12/disabled-vet-says-debt-col...

Perhaps someone can come up with a business idea that will put debt collectors in check?
"The real problem with consulting right now is that it's so freaking lucrative"

I suggest for anyone doing consulting or building an app that they build into the price a monthly maintenance fee as a residual. We have an app that was written for us about 6 years ago (+-$65000) and we pay $6000 per year just to have the developer make minor changes and answer emails quickly. Very little work on his part but it gives us a warm and fuzzy feeling. (He originally asked for $1000/month). We'll probably negotiate this down when we get around to it.

"hundreds of small checks over the next six years, even though the small checks"

Hundreds of small checks are also "forced savings". You can't spend them before you receive them. You tend to keep your finances inline this way.
Not much, so I will ask a question. What's more pythonic - avoiding getters/setters, or having assignment do more than simple assignment without the caller knowing about it?

Or does the issue simply not come up in practice, because you rarely need to redefine how assignment/accessing works?
Intel graphics have the best drivers and are the best options if you're doing simple desktop stuff.

For serious 3D, Nvidia proprietary drivers are so far the only good option.

AMD is not very relevant in the linux world.
Both PHP and Ruby are turing-complete languages, so, by definition, there aren't any things that you can do in RoR, but can't do in PHP or even COBOL for that matter.
No, you are dead right. Even though a lot of NVidias stuff is closed source, the binaries have always had much better support for graphics and power management than ever the Radeon drivers. I could never get things like graphics hibernate to work as well as it did with those from NVidia.

I believe I read earlier that they have promised to open source a lot of their drivers for OSS.
> Sorry, but providing basic free healthcare is no more a political issue than adopting the metric system or providing clean drinking water.

Americans have to pay for their drinking water just like they have to pay for their healthcare.

Lest you misunderstand me: Why shouldn't "food" be included, as well? And heat?
I would pay around $5 for this app, but I am not a professional - so it depends who you are marketing it to.
I think you're wrong here. Given an infinite amount of time and an infinite number of stars distributed evenly in an infinite universe, even the dust and planets will start to radiate[1].

The paradox hinges on the assumption that the universe is infinite in size with an even distribution of stars which have been radiating for eternity. So, it's only a paradox if you assume those things. Remember, this question was first asked in the 1600s.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_body_radiation
The silicon gaz is new to me. Never heard of this theory. How would such a gaz not disolve in air ?

How could it explain the explosions reported with some ball lightning ? The plasma bubble explains all the reported facts.

A precision to the discribed model is that ions of opposite charge move in opposite direction radialy. When they crossed each other they slow down due to the attractive force of the opposite charge up to the point they stop and reverse direction. This oscillation of the ions explains the stability of the plasma over a long period.

The plasma bubble layer is very thin. A bubble may contain other bubbles forming then multi layer bubbles.
If you find an article that "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" on those topics then please submit them. Don't conflate HN with only startup news. It has never had that restriction, it's more of a primary focus.

HN is not /r/StartUps. There are no hard rules here on specific content, only community consensus via voting and occasional hands-on moderation.
It has autotest.

It has gnulib (not a test suite, but a very comprehensive POSIX API test).

It has the poor saps who have to use it.

However none of these things gate commits to the kernel.
I wrote a simple DCPU assembler and simulator to teach myself CoffeeScript: https://github.com/tjdetwiler/hcf

Demo here: http://tjdetwiler.github.com/hcf/
On the contrary, the time per inner iteration is slightly higher this way and the same conclusions hold:

1. python3.2 str() is at least as fast as '%s' formatting

2. '%s' is slightly faster than str() with python2.7

3. theint.__str__() is faster than either alternative in all cases
That is the first time I've heard someone call the Zune software crapware, it's a godsend compared to the mess that is iTunes.
There's nothing whatsoever 'intellectually gratifying' about this article. It's a way to tug at people's emotions in order to attempt to sway their opinions.

And I say that as someone who agrees with the point of the article.
It's missing one tip I like:
Make sure your functions are calling CPython functions for heavy operations, specially when using libraries.

I often use python libs which functions are written in python itself and create bootlenecks. Rewrite those functions by calling "native" CPython functions, generally make an extremely large differences
So far no flame war :)

I don't think you can actually separate discussion of health care (even though its a political hot button) from discussion of running a small business, given the challenges in getting insurance as an individual or for the employees of a small business. Honestly, in the U.S., one of the major things that turns me off from working on a small start-up is the health insurance situation. Even if you're ok now, then the chance of a double whammy (job loss plus development of a pre-existing condition that makes it hard to regain insurance) is non-negligible and you can end up in the bad situation where you have no job, health problems (maybe even precluding work), and no way to get back into the health insurance system.

If you're lucky enough to maintain continuous employer coverage, you're ok, or if you have enough free cash that you can maintain COBRA or individual coverage, then you're probably ok for some time, but that isn't always the case.

I can't quantify how much this biases people towards working for established companies with good health plans and job security versus risky companies, but it must be a pretty large effect - it certainly would make me think twice about taking a job at a startup, versus, say, Google.
> I thought "Where is YOUR husband?"

The woman's point isn't invalidated because her husband isn't there. Perhaps the husband is making a living. Maybe he's playing golf. Maybe he's dead.

If you stop working and decide to take your kids to the park, put your phone down and enjoy the moment you have with them. You'll never get a chance like that again later in life!
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Pypy, you mean the people who dont see value in properly supporting HTTPS when retrieving packages?
They can go after the spouse because in most states (maybe all of them) your debts are your spouses debts and vice versa.

I knew a guy in California that was gritting his teeth the entire six month waiting period for a divorce because his soon-to-be ex was maxing out her credit cards, getting more credit cards and maxing those too.

Unfortunately for her the rules change a little once you file for a divorce even if it isn't final.
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This is ridiculous. Target the promotion to US-only.

Now, if your page is liked by folks in foreign countries then you still may get (organic!) foreign likes, but you shouldn't be getting any paid foreign likes.

tldr: layer on US-only targeting
Ah .. rent-seeking telecoms companies. Imagine for a minute if these companies had to compete to the death with each other. I guess I wouldn't have to pay more for the same service now as I used to have to back in 1999 (with no discernable increase in the service over 13 years).
That may have had nothing to do with money though. Maybe he just didn't make it.

I had a cousin in a rural town who drove himself to the hospital 40 miles away in the middle of a heart attack. Because there wasn't anybody else. He could easily have ended up the same way.
We had a similar problem with Chinese and Spanish comments via paid promotions for spencersmarket.com. I speak Spanish and my cofounder speaks Mandarin, these comments were not legitimate. Clearly there is some form of inauthenticity taking place with Facebook's paid promotions. My solution had been to use the language targeting tools to only expose the post only to an English (US) audience.
> Lest you misunderstand me

It's impossible to misunderstand you. You're so clearly a republican/libertarian American trying to draw me into a carefully constructed argument as to why I should deny something the rest of the world decided long ago is a basic human right.

Sorry, not interested. I also am not open to discussions on switching Canada to the imperial system, instituting Sharia law, re-enslaving black people, or any other ridiculous throwbacks. The rest of the world has moved on, feel free to join us whenever you get your act together.
That's a great article, thanks!

"...and the new maintainer can't be bothered to check whether his new version has actually solved any of the known problems that existed in the previous version"

It's even worse than that:

- The new version might have new bugs that the old version didn't have.

- The new version might not have all the features you've come to depend on in the old version.

- The new version might have APIs or syntax that are not compatible with the old version.
I would like to a "loading" indicator too, but I'm not sure what the best way to integrate it is. I've noticed the other issues you've pointed out - there definitely needs to be some more refinement that needs to be thought about.
doesn't that import the modules i.e. execute them?